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From: Matt Johnsson on 16 Jul 2008 05:56
Can someone please help me with my boot problem on my shuttle.
I installed and built my shuttle 2 years ago, then it booted from
WinXPpro install cd (and or floppy) and installed without flaws.
I now want to re-install WinXPpro and it will not boot from CD.
After some experimenting I found that I can boot and install Ubuntu
Linux, Fedora and Freenas from CD, just not windows based CDs ( like
any XP install CDs, I have tried several and a Ghost partition copy
CD, I have tried these CDs on other machines so I know the disks
work).

I have tried with a known good/working CDROM and it still does not
boot.

If I unplug my SATA HD my pc happily boots from CD without fail.
I have tried with another SATA HD and have the same issue, I have also
noticed that I cannot boot from floppy disk (WinXp boot floppy)
anymore, unless I unplug my SATA HD.

I did test with a IDE HD and my IDE CD and it booted ok.

I have cleared my CMOS (using the jumper on my MB) and also flashed
the BIOS to the latest version, neither worked.

Any and all ideas welcome
Thanks
Matt
From: Paul on 16 Jul 2008 18:48
Matt Johnsson wrote:
> Can someone please help me with my boot problem on my shuttle.
> I installed and built my shuttle 2 years ago, then it booted from
> WinXPpro install cd (and or floppy) and installed without flaws.
> I now want to re-install WinXPpro and it will not boot from CD.
> After some experimenting I found that I can boot and install Ubuntu
> Linux, Fedora and Freenas from CD, just not windows based CDs ( like
> any XP install CDs, I have tried several and a Ghost partition copy
> CD, I have tried these CDs on other machines so I know the disks
> work).
>
> I have tried with a known good/working CDROM and it still does not
> boot.
>
> If I unplug my SATA HD my pc happily boots from CD without fail.
> I have tried with another SATA HD and have the same issue, I have also
> noticed that I cannot boot from floppy disk (WinXp boot floppy)
> anymore, unless I unplug my SATA HD.
>
> I did test with a IDE HD and my IDE CD and it booted ok.
>
> I have cleared my CMOS (using the jumper on my MB) and also flashed
> the BIOS to the latest version, neither worked.
>
> Any and all ideas welcome
> Thanks
> Matt

Southbridge is VIA 8237R. Install a jumper plug on the back of the
SATA hard drive, the one that causes "force 150". That will cause
a 3gbit/sec hard drive interface, to switch down to 1.5gbit/sec,
for better compatibility with VIA chipsets.

For example, see page 11 here.
http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/maxtor/en_us/documentation/installation_guides/dm_11_sata300_installation_guide_en.pdf

I think you'll also need to press F6 and install a driver, as I'm
not sure that the Microsoft default driver would work with that
Southbridge.

Paul
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